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With one session to go on Saturday it was still the same two counties on top, both on 20
points, with Sunderland on 18 and Northumberland on 16 points. Saturday finished with 21
Hertfordshire just edging out a 2-point lead over Suffolk. Herts finished the day on 24
points, Suffolk on 22 and Sunderland and Northumberland sharing third place on 18 points.
With everyone having played once on Sunday morning Suffolk had just edged ahead by a
point over Herts with Sunderland 4 off the leaders. With a couple of sessions to go Hertfordshire
were now three points clear of the rest as Suffolk dropped off the pace and were now being
caught by Sunderland.
In the end that lead held good although Suffolk chipped it back. Hertfordshire finished on
37 points, Suffolk on 36 (both identical to last year), with Sunderland third on 34.
ECBA RINKS TOURNAMENT
ECBA RINKS TOURNAMENT
The Annual English Rinks was
held at Braintree Leisure Centre
and hosted by Essex. 32 teams
took part initially playing in eight
groups of four teams.
On the day there was one
team taking part from Sunderland,
three teams from West Sussex
and the remaining 28 teams from
the Eastern Counties, with most
from the hosts County Essex.
The winners & runners-up of
each Group went through to the
knockout out stages of the main
competition with the third and
Sunderland Winners
fourth place going through to a Sunderland Winners
supplementary knock out 'Plate' competition, giving every team taking part a minimum of four
games of eight ends during the day.
And it was the long-distance travellers from
Sunderland who found their form to reach the
final against the local team from Little Easton.
The Sunderland team of J Sanderson/L McGa-
han/Colin Young/F Froud get the better of the
Little Easton team of Brian Jenner/Tony
Gypps/Mike Walsh/Kevin Boxall to win the
match 11-5.
Rinks Knockout-Out Stages - There was
some outstanding bowling and close games
with the eventual finalists being the Ellesmere
(Cambridgeshire) team of Margaret Clem-
met/Barbara Upex/Angela Newling/David
Runners-Up Little Easton Clemmet against the Chelmer Village (Essex)
Runners-Up Little Easton
team of Sandra Dekeyzer/Ann Patrica/Duncan
Lumley/Tony Bareham. A close match went all the way to the last end with Ellsmere eventually
winning 8-5 and take the title. Many thanks to Essex for arranging the competition and to all
teams who took part in a good days bowling.
Special thanks go to Marie Boyton/Anthea Bushe & Val Kidd for running the Raffle, to Alec
Russell for all his work on the day and especially to Duncan Lumley for setting up and running
the competition.
Paul Daniels